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Bright-line Brown-eye

Lacanobia oleracea

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 16,628, February 12,281, March 19,241, April 30,271, May 43,646, June 47,594, July 50,928, August 43,798, September 32,156, October 24,002, November 13,116, December 10,251.
United States343,912
Alaska343,912
United Kingdom2,670
England2,317
Germany852
France610
Russia517
Austria478
Portugal376
Spain318

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilyCutworm Moths and Allies · Noctuidae
GenusLacanobia

Sources

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